Experiments

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• Evaluating deconvolution methods using real bulk RNA-expression data for robust prognostic insights across cancer types.

  PMID 41566530 · PMC12906006 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Pseudobulk and real bulk RNA-seq deconvolution performance differ significantly, and method ranking consistency is lower between pseudobulk and real bulk than within either data type alone

  breast real colon tcga paired pseudobulk bulk

• scLong: a billion-parameter foundation model for capturing long-range gene context in single-cell transcriptomics.

  PMID 41639087 · PMC12982784 · Nature communications · 2026 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  scLong performs self-attention across all ~27,874 human genes, including lowly expressed ones, to capture long-range gene dependencies missed by models restricted to highly expressed gene subsets

  million norman self-supervised transcriptional genetic

• HArmonized single-cell RNA-seq Cell type Assisted Deconvolution (HASCAD).

  PMID 37907883 · PMC10619225 · BMC medical genomics · 2023 · 6 claims · 4 setups

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  Removal of batch effects in reference scRNA-seq datasets (via Harmony-Symphony) benefits the task of cell composition deconvolution

  pbmc derived tcga-lihc scrna-seq simulated bulk

• Forseti: a mechanistic and predictive model of the splicing status of scRNA-seq reads.

  PMID 38940130 · PMC11256924 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2024 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Forseti is the first probabilistic model for resolving the splicing status of exonic scRNA-seq reads by scoring putative fragments linking read alignments to proximate priming sites

  training simulated held-out paired-end cubic mlp

• Fast, accurate, and racially unbiased pan-cancer tumor-only variant calling with tabular machine learning.

  PMID 36611079 · PMC9825621 · NPJ precision oncology · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Tree-based (XGBoost, LightGBM) and deep-learning (TabNet) tabular ML classifiers achieve state-of-the-art somatic vs germline classification in tumor-only WES samples, outperforming PureCN.

  tcga same metastatic tumor-only whole-exome wes copy-number

• scSurv: a deep generative model for single-cell survival analysis.

  PMID 41429574 · PMC12797213 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  scSurv combines a Cox proportional hazards model with a deep generative model (VAE) of single-cell transcriptomes to estimate individual cellular contributions to clinical outcomes

  simulated tcga melanoma renal scrna-seq bulk single-cell

• Graph Random Forest: A Graph Embedded Algorithm for Identifying Highly Connected Important Features.

  PMID 37509188 · PMC10377046 · Biomolecules · 2023 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  GRF identifies effective features that form highly connected sub-graphs on the underlying biological network

  synthetic tcga embryonic simulation sub-graph reproducibility

• Profiling critical cancer gene mutations in clinical tumor samples.

  PMID 19924296 · PMC2774511 · PloS one · 2009 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  OncoMap, a panel of ~400 mass-spectrometric genotyping assays targeting 33 cancer genes, enables robust mutation profiling of clinical fresh-frozen and FFPE tumor DNA.

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• Glioblastoma stem cells show transcriptionally correlated spatial organization.

  PMID 41577992 · PMC12894897 · Communications biology · 2026 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  GSCs from different patient samples exhibit diverse, characteristic multicellular spatial patterns in culture (e.g., anisotropic vs isotropic packing, overlapping vs non-overlapping space utilization)

  patient-derived computational matched pooled phase-contrast bulk principal

• PreTSA: computationally efficient modeling of temporal and spatial gene expression patterns.

  PMID 41673899 · PMC12998178 · Genome biology · 2026 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  PreTSA dramatically reduces computational time and memory versus GAM (Monocle, TSCAN) and PseudotimeDE for identifying temporally variable genes (TVGs) while producing highly similar results

  simulated null pbmc pancreas pseudotime tvg false-positive

• CanSig Benchmarks Methods for Reproducible Cancer Cell State Discovery from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data.

  PMID 41231245 · PMC13053056 · Cancer research · 2026 · 7 claims · 7 setups

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  CanSig is a comprehensive benchmarking tool for evaluating computational methods that identify shared transcriptional signatures in cancer from scRNA-seq data

  neftel kim scrna-seq same scrna-seq ground-truth robustness

• Community assessment of methods to deconvolve cellular composition from bulk gene expression.

  PMID 39191725 · PMC11350143 · Nature communications · 2024 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Most deconvolution methods accurately predict coarse-grained immune/stromal cell populations from bulk expression.

  admixtures cancer tumor bulk bulk admixture crowdsourced

• Enhanced Generalizability of RNA Secondary Structure Prediction via Convolutional Block Attention Network and Ensemble Learning.

  PMID 40871599 · PMC12388828 · Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TrioFold integrates base-pairing clues from thermodynamic- and DL-based methods via ensemble learning and a convolutional block attention mechanism to enhance RSS prediction generalizability.

  testseta bprna-new ts-inter individual jaccard pca ensemble

• Landscape of allele-specific transcription factor binding in the human genome.

  PMID 33980847 · PMC8115691 · Nature communications · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A novel statistical framework (ADASTRA) calls allele-specific TF binding from existing ChIP-Seq alignments by jointly correcting for background allelic dosage (BAD, from aneuploidy/CNVs) and reference mapping bias.

  gtrd k562 mcf7 types chip-seq variant bayesian

• Accurate chromatin marks peak calling with Omnipeak.

  PMID 41521664 · PMC12784980 · Nucleic acids research · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Omnipeak is a universal unsupervised peak-calling algorithm based on a constrained three-state hidden Markov model (zero, noise, signal states)

  gm12878 roadmap abf immgen chip-seq ultra-low-input atac-seq

• A Scalable Framework for Comprehensive Typing of Polymorphic Immune Genes from Long-Read Data.

  PMID 41669879 · PMC13088316 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  SpecImmune is the first unified computational framework to simultaneously genotype HLA, KIR, IG, TCR, and CYP genes from long-read data.

  1kgp hprc hgsvc long-read targeted germline

• FracFixR: a compositional statistical framework for absolute proportion estimation between fractions in RNA sequencing data.

  PMID 41264734 · PMC12866640 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  FracFixR reconstructs original fraction proportions by modeling the compositional relationship between whole and fractionated RNA samples using non-negative least squares (NNLS) regression on selected transcripts

  gm12878 mixtures reh long-read polysome synthetic

• Robust and efficient annotation of cell states through gene signature scoring.

  PMID 41708334 · PMC12951948 · Genome research · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Established scoring methods (Seurat, SCANPY, UCell, JASMINE) fail to provide robust and comparable score distributions across diverse signatures and experimental conditions, precluding accurate unsupervised cell-state annotation.

  pbmc colorectal esophageal crc scrna-seq cross-implementation signature